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46-446: Tilney and Tylney are surnames of English origin. They may refer to: People [ edit ] Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk , ( née Tilney; 1477–1545), English noblewoman Colin Tilney (born 1933), harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher Edmund Tylney (also Tilney, 1536–1610), courtier to Elizabeth I of England, and Master of

92-522: A bright future ahead of him because of his royal connections. He was a distant kinsman of Queen Elizabeth by virtue of the familial alliance with the Howards. To obtain royal favour he wrote a treatise called A briefe and pleasant discourse of duties in mariage, called the flower of friendshippe , which was published in 1568. The book was dedicated to the Queen. For the next few years he maintained his connections with

138-463: A length of cloth-of-gold. On 21 April 1509 Henry VII died. Surrey was an executor of the late King's will, and served as Earl Marshal at the coronation of Henry VIII . When a Scottish army invaded after Henry VIII had departed for Calais on 30 June 1513, Surrey crushed the Scottish forces at Flodden on 9 September. The victory brought Surrey popular renown and royal rewards. On 1 February 1514 he

184-528: A marriage between the Spanish Infanta , Catherine of Aragon , and Henry VII's eldest son Arthur, Prince of Wales . When Prince Arthur died on 2 April 1502, Surrey supervised the funeral. In 1503 he escorted the King's daughter, Margaret Tudor , to Scotland for her wedding to King James IV . Agnes Howard, and her step-daughter Muriel, Lady Gray, clipped the Scottish king's beard on 9 August 1503, and he gave her

230-899: A new Wetherspoons pub in the town's High Street was named after him. He is buried in St Leonard's Church, Streatham, London. A monument was erected in his memory. Though the office of the Master of the Revels was one of the most influential posts in Elizabethan England, there is a paucity of information about the life of Edmund Tilney, the Master who was connected with the development of drama at that time. There have been various sources, most of which have offered erroneous information. Starting from scholars like Malone to Sidney Lee , there has been varied representation of facts on Tilney. There are no details about his issue or what happened to his wife as there

276-664: A pendant shaped like the letter "A" set with diamonds and pearls as a New Year's day gift. By the spring of 1522 Norfolk was almost 80 years of age and in failing health. He retired to his ducal castle at Framlingham in Suffolk where he died on 21 May 1524. His funeral and burial on 22 June at Thetford Priory were said to have been 'spectacular and enormously expensive', befitting the richest and most powerful peer in England. The Dowager Duchess remained in favour after her husband's death. Ordinances issued at Eltham in 1526 indicate that she

322-657: A treatise called A brief and pleasant dis-course of the duties in Marriage, called the Flower of Friendshipp . This was dedicated to the Queen. It is written in the traditional Renaissance genre of the conversazione. He talks about the perfect state of marital love and expounds it with various historical examples. It is an eloquent work of writing and deals with length on the ideal state of marriage between men and women. The treatise reveals an influence of humanist and philosophical ideas. Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies

368-448: Is also credited with the creation of the Queen's Company of actors. She had received a few players as part of her inheritance. However, Elizabeth never used them and usually asked Tilney to get either children or other companies to perform. Soon it became difficult to arrange for performances according to the court preferences. Some plays proved to be dull and were often cancelled. Just a few years after assuming office, Tilney chose twelve of

414-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Agnes Howard ( née Tilney ) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk . Two of King Henry VIII's queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard . Catherine Howard was placed in the Dowager Duchess's care after her mother's death. Agnes' brother, Sir Philip Tilney of Shelley (d.1533),

460-497: Is the unpublished diplomatic book that he was preparing. Tilney dedicated his work to King James and spoke about collating notes on different countries. This reference work reveals Tilney's knowledge on varied subjects include topography , genealogy, geography, economics and law. Edmund Tilney lived a life which was spent in balancing one controversy against another. On the one hand he had the Lord Treasurer to contend with, and on

506-479: The Council, but could add little to what was already known by her interrogators. On 1 December Dereham and Culpeper were arraigned on charges of treason. Both were convicted at trial, and sentenced to death. Dereham and his friend William Damport were tortured in an attempt to wring confessions from them concerning Queen Catherine's alleged adultery, and on 10 December 1541 Dereham and Culpeper were executed at Tyburn . On

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552-460: The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. No record of Tilney's education survives. He evidently learned Latin, French, Italian and Spanish because his early works indicate his acquaintance not only with those languages but also with subjects such as law, history, economics and genealogy. There is speculation that he must have travelled because travel was regarded as a part of one's education at that time. Though Tilney likely had an informal education, he had

598-718: The Dowager Duchess of treason as there had been to convict Dereham. However the Council urged leniency, and she was eventually released from the Tower on 5 May 1542. Her stepson, the Duke of Norfolk, escaped punishment, but was never fully trusted again by the King. The Dowager Duchess died in May 1545 and on 13 October was interred at St. Mary's Church in Lambeth, Surrey, where four of her sons who had died young--John, Charles, Henry, and Richard--were buried. Her husband's tomb at Thetford St. Mary's Priory Church

644-507: The Dowager Duchess's household were arrested and interrogated by the Council. Her stepson, the Duke of Norfolk , was sent to search her house at Lambeth and question members of the household. They revealed that the Duchess had attempted to destroy evidence by burning the papers of Dereham and his friend William Damport . The Duchess was sent to the Tower. Towards the end of November she was questioned by

690-630: The Howard family. In 1572, he represented Gatton, Surrey , in Parliament . The 2nd Duke of Norfolk's son and grandson held the title of Lord Howard of Effingham consecutively. The second Lord Howard became the Lord Chamberlain in 1574. The Revels Office has always been under the Lord Chamberlain, and he conferred the position of Master on Edmund Tilney. In July 1579, Edmund Tilney formally assumed

736-404: The King's Highness of the confiscation of her goods', but like the others she was sentenced to imprisonment and forfeiture of lands and goods. On 6 February 1542 a bill of attainder against Queen Catherine and Lady Rochford received final reading, and on 13 February 1542 the Queen and Lady Rochford were beheaded on Tower Green . The King was of the view that there was as much reason to convict

782-415: The King's eye. Henry and Catherine were married at a private ceremony at Oatlands on 28 July 1540. Despite the fact that Henry was much in love with her, referring to her as his "rose without a thorn", the marriage quickly came to a disastrous end. While the King and Queen were on progress during the fall of 1541, the religious reformer John Lassells and his sister Mary Hall told Archbishop Cranmer of

828-545: The Lord Mayor of London named Tilney as one of the obstacles to ending public drama in the city. However, Tilney's censorship was not of a generalising nature. While he did omit politically volatile passages and scenes, some, like the deposition scene in Richard II and the murder of Julius Caesar , were allowed to remain. However, there is no way of knowing whether Julius Caesar was allowed to be performed uncensored. Tilney

874-493: The Master of the Revels was vested with the power of licensing plays for publishing. Some documentary evidence reveals the fact that George Buck had been appointed as acting master. Censorship took on a more relaxed stance with the onset of the Jacobean era . In the following years, Buck licensed many plays, though Tilney controlled and managed the accounts of the office. He stayed in office till his death in 1610. Edmund Tilney wrote

920-474: The Master. Any offender could be imprisoned by Tilney's orders. He was given complete authority in matters concerning drama. This responsibility had been previously shared by Revels officers. He now became the censor of drama all over the country. One important example is The Book of Sir Thomas More . It concerned the anti-alien riots on the Evil May Day of 1517. Due to its inflammatory political content it

966-536: The Queen's sexual indiscretions with her music master, Henry Manox , and a Howard kinsman, Francis Dereham , while she had been a young girl living in the Dowager Duchess's household at Lambeth. On 1 November 1541 Cranmer revealed these matters in a letter to the King. The King immediately ordered that the Queen be confined to her apartments, and never saw her again. The Dowager Duchess, hearing reports of what had happened while Catherine had been under her lax guardianship, reasoned that 'If there be none offence sithence

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1012-592: The Revels Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (before 1445 – 1497), English heiress and lady-in-waiting to two queens Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire John Tilney (1907–1994), British businessman and politician Robert Tilney (1903–1981), British Army officer who served during World War II William S. Tilney (born 1939), American public official, lawyer and diplomat Places [ edit ] Thorpe Tilney , hamlet in

1058-447: The Revels to Queen Elizabeth), were arraigned for misprision of treason 'for concealing the evil demeanour of the Queen, to the slander of the King and his succession'. All were sentenced to life imprisonment and loss of goods, although most were pardoned after Queen Catherine's execution. The Dowager Duchess, although included in the indictment, was not brought to trial as she was 'old and testy', and 'may die out of perversity to defraud

1104-400: The Revels office. It had fallen into major disrepute with creditors. A commission issued on 24 December 1581 solved this financial crisis and enabled him to reduce the maintenance costs of the office to a moderate budget. The second section of the commission was to prohibit the discussion of any controversial issues in theatre. A play would be permitted only if the manuscript had the signature of

1150-426: The Revels' expenses by producing plays. In the succeeding reign of James I, masques made a comeback. On 24 March 1603, Elizabeth's reign ended and James I ascended the throne. There had been major issues regarding Tilney's patent, as John Lyly had been vying for that post. George Buck , supported by the Howards, was also a contender but Tilney retained his position as the Master even under James I. Also, around 1606,

1196-427: The Tower. About the same time another of the Duchess's daughters, Katherine Daubeney, Lady Bridgewater was also arrested. On 14 December 1541, Norfolk, fearful for his own safety, denounced his stepmother and kin in a letter to the King. On 22 December William Howard and his wife, and a number of servants who had been witnesses to the Queen's misconduct, including Malyn Tilney (mother of Edmund Tilney , future Master of

1242-468: The best actors from different companies and created the Queen's Men . Soon after this, the Queen's Men played a major part at all court performances. However, they had all but faded by the 1590s. Tilney brought about another important change in the development of drama by giving priority to the play instead of the masque as part of the entertainment. Masques were very expensive to produce, and Tilney cut down on

1288-458: The coronation procession, and was godmother at the christening of Anne's daughter, Princess Elizabeth . Anne's two subsequent miscarriages caused the King misgivings about the marriage, but Anne's downfall ultimately came about as a result of her conflict with the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell , over the distribution of the spoils from the dissolution of the monasteries . Anne was charged with adultery and high treason , and on 19 May 1536

1334-478: The county of Lincolnshire, England Tilney All Saints , civil parish in the English county of Norfolk Tilney St Lawrence , village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk Business [ edit ] Tilney (company) Literature [ edit ] Henry Tilney ( Northanger Abbey ) See also [ edit ] Athelney Thilmany Tillenay Tylney Topics referred to by

1380-514: The end, his financial circumstances had become severely strained. He lost a few properties through lawsuits as well. In his will he wished to be buried near his father without much pomp and ceremony. He bequeathed money to a few poor parishes, some servants and to his cousin Thomas Tilney. He lived in the town of Leatherhead , Surrey, in the building known as the Mansion House. In December 1997,

1426-441: The exception of a few years, fell within Tilney's tenure of Mastership. The latter licensed thirty of Shakespeare's plays. But if Tilney's censorship restricted the writers, his support protected them from generally hostile civic authorities. The polite fiction of aristocratic patronage did not obscure the reality that the troupes were commercial enterprises; however, that fiction brought the theatres under royal protection; in 1592,

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1472-430: The marriage, she cannot die for that was done before'. Unfortunately for the Queen and the Dowager Duchess, further investigations by Cranmer and the Council revealed that with the connivance of one of her attendants, Lady Rochford , Catherine had allegedly had an affair with Thomas Culpeper , one of the King's favourite gentlemen of the privy chamber, after her marriage to the King. Dereham, Manox, and other members of

1518-428: The office of Master of the Revels though he had been the acting Master since February 1578. Tilney occupied this position as it underwent a significant change in focus. When he began his work, it consisted principally of planning and conducting royal entertainments, as a unit of the Lord Chamberlain's office. His principal aim was that of pleasing the Queen. Then he started clearing up the various problems associated with

1564-492: The other there was the Lord Chamberlain from whom he took direct orders. Following his appointment as the Master, he grew increasingly popular and married Dame Mary Braye in 1583. She was the fourth wife of Sir Edmund Braye. There are no other details about whether they had any children or not. Even in his will written in 1610, there is no mention of either his wife or any issue. He spent the latter part of his life fighting various lawsuits and claims over property and debt. Towards

1610-423: The same day the Dowager Duchess was again questioned, and admitted to having promoted her niece as a prospective bride for the King while having knowledge of her prior misconduct, to having persuaded the Queen to take Dereham into her service, and to having burned Dereham's letters. By mid-December the Dowager Duchess's eldest son, William Howard , his wife, and the Duchess's daughter Anne Howard were committed to

1656-577: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tilney . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilney&oldid=1251068383 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Place name disambiguation pages Surnames of English origin Hidden categories: Short description

1702-459: Was a younger son of Sir Philip Tilney of Shelley (d. 1533), treasurer during the Battle of Flodden under the command of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk . Norfolk's first wife was Sir Philip Tilney's cousin, Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey ; after Elizabeth died in 1497, Norfolk married Sir Philip Tilney's sister, Agnes , later Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Edmund Tilney's mother, Malyn Tilney,

1748-435: Was accorded first place in the Queen's household after the King's sister Mary Tudor . On 23 May 1533 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared Henry VIII's marriage to his first Queen, Katherine of Aragon , a nullity. On or about 25 January 1533 the King had already married the Dowager Duchess's step-granddaughter Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. Anne was crowned Queen on 1 June 1533. The Dowager Duchess bore Anne's train in

1794-428: Was beheaded at Tower Green . The King then took Jane Seymour as his third wife. Two years after her death, at Cromwell's instigation the King wed Anne of Cleves on 6 January 1540. However the King's physical revulsion for his new bride led to a speedy annulment of the marriage by Act of Parliament on 12 July 1540. By then Catherine Howard , another of the Dowager Duchess's step-granddaughters, had already caught

1840-471: Was created Duke of Norfolk, and his son Thomas was made Earl of Surrey. Both were granted lands and annuities, and the Howard arms were augmented in honour of Flodden. Norfolk's leading position among the nobility was reflected in the Duchess's role at court. She was godmother to Princess Mary , and attended the Princess during a visit to France in 1520. Katherine of Aragon , the wife of Henry VIII, gave her

1886-466: Was implicated in the scandal leading to the downfall of the Duchess's step-granddaughter, Queen Catherine Howard , and was sentenced on 22 December 1541 to life imprisonment and loss of goods, but pardoned after the Queen's execution on 13 February 1542. Edmund Tilney's father was buried on 10 September 1541 in St. Leonard's Church, Streatham . He died in debt, and his widow, Malyn, received a promise of help from

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1932-478: Was in the service of Thomas Howard , then Earl of Surrey, the husband of Agnes' cousin, Elizabeth Tilney . Surrey's first wife died on 4 April 1497, and he and Agnes were married four months later by dispensation dated 17 August 1497. Agnes brought Surrey little by way of dowry . The marriage coincided with a change in Surrey's fortunes. As a supporter of Richard III , for whom he fought at Bosworth in 1485, Surrey

1978-469: Was not in high favour during the early years of the reign of Henry VII . However, in 1499 he was recalled to court, and in the following year he accompanied the King on a state visit to France. In 1501 he was sworn of the Privy Council , and on 16 June of that year was named Lord Treasurer . In the same year he was involved in successful diplomatic negotiations with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella for

2024-473: Was removed by his son after the dissolution of that house in 1537, and may have been moved to Lambeth, but no trace of his or Agnes's tomb were to be found when John Aubrey visited there in the 1690s. The church itself was substantially rebuilt. Edmund Tilney Edmund Tilney was the only son of Philip Tilney (d. 1541), Usher of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII , and Malyn Chambre. Philip Tilney

2070-636: Was rigidly censored, and the play was never released. Any political content designed to agitate the court was censored. Tilney's career as Master (1579–1610) spanned some of the most eventful years in the history of English drama. In 1576, The Theatre and The Curtain , the first public playhouses, were built. There were many more being built all over the country at this time. This led to a rapid proliferation of dramatic activity. It began with playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd who were drawing crowds with Tamburlaine and The Spanish Tragedy . The entire career of William Shakespeare , with

2116-473: Was the paternal grandfather of Edmund Tilney (1535/6–1610), Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James . Edmund Tilney's mother, Malyn, was implicated in the scandal surrounding the downfall of Queen Katherine Howard. Agnes Tilney, born around 1477, was the daughter of Hugh Tilney of Skirbeck and Boston, Lincolnshire , by Eleanor, daughter of Walter Tailboys and Alice Stafford Cheyney . Her brother, Sir Philip Tilney of Shelley (d.1533),

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